Forum PA, there are 3.2 million employees in the Public Administration: the lowest in 20 years

• Recovery: the Recruitment Portal for the Public Administration will be online by the summer

• Pa. Brunetta: "Smart working will remain where efficiency improves. Goodbye nineteenth-century competitions"

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June 21, 2021 The Italian Public Administration, as of January 1, 2021, had 3.2 million employees, 31,000 fewer than the previous year (-0.97%), the all-time low of the last 20 years. After the timid sign of staff growth in 2019, in 2020 the freezing of competitions for the health emergency and the acceleration of retirements did not allow the turnover to find a balance. The Italian PA is confirmed as old (on average 50 years of age), poorly updated (on average 1.2 days of training per employee per year), struggling to offer adequate services to businesses and citizens (76% of Italians consider them inadequate, while 51% of Europeans are dissatisfied), yet called to be the engine of recovery.

These are some numbers of the

, presented this morning by Fpa, a company of the Digital 360 Group, at Forum PA 2021, the event that from today to June 25 will host over 200 streaming events on the guiding theme "Connecting the vital energies of the country", around missions, objectives and the interventions of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Meanwhile, pensioners from public employment reached 3.03 million, in a ratio of 94 pensions paid per 100 active taxpayers. And the exodus is destined to increase: as described in the Pnrr itself, in the next three years at least 300,000 people will leave the public sector (but there will probably be many more, considering that over 500,000 employees are already over 62 years old and 183,000 have attained over 38 years of service). However, a new season of competitions has opened,with the release of selective tests and an important simplification of procedures, intended to speed up the hiring of personnel necessary to guarantee the functioning of the public machine.

According to the photograph of the Public Function Department,

.: 9,875 positions between regions, health service, municipalities, universities, non-economic public bodies, research bodies and state advocacy, in addition there are approximately 91 thousand places in the school and 18,014 places in competitions announced, concluded or to be concluded.

And the resources of the NRP are on their way, which will invest 1.3 billion euros in improving the administrative capacity of central and local PA, plus an additional 400 million euros of EU structural funds and national co-financing, for a total of 1.7 billion. euro: a significant figure, even if only equal to 0.4% of the total 396.9 billion of resources foreseen for the recovery, which requires "spending" capacity and targeted investments to redesign the Public Administration according to the challenge that awaits it . "The NRRR can really be an

, but at the same time a new PA is needed to carry out the planned missions, connecting the subjects of innovation, establishing a continuous dialogue between the center and the periphery, systematizing the best experiences already achieved - says Gianni Dominici, general manager of Fpa -.

New people and new skills are needed, planning in a targeted way the actual needs, with highly selective procedures, which allow to identify the most useful figures for the needs of the individual administrations. As the experience of Covid demonstrates, it is necessary to make the public workforce capable of governing and planning uncertainty and supporting the recovery "." The PNRR is an epochal challenge that the Italian PA faces in a critical situation, after years of divestment: workforce at an all-time low, high average age, little training and largely legal-regulatory skills instead of strategic areas such as digital and project management - underlines Carlo Mochi Sismondi, president of Fpa -.The hiring plan is an important step forward, so you need to carefully define the profiles you need and quickly adjust your recruiting procedures to attract the right people, as has already begun. But that's not enough. Now it is necessary to motivate and enhance and train the staff, radically decrease the dependence of the PA on external experts, provide for equitable stabilization mechanisms of the temporary workforce that will be selected, reform the professional system to favor a correct placement and adequate remuneration for the highest technical professionalism of which the administrations are dramatically lacking ".Now it is necessary to motivate and enhance and train the staff, radically decrease the dependence of the PA on external experts, provide for equitable stabilization mechanisms of the temporary workforce that will be selected, reform the professional system to favor a correct placement and adequate remuneration for the highest technical professionalism of which the administrations are dramatically lacking ".Now it is necessary to motivate and enhance and train the staff, radically decrease the dependence of the PA on external experts, provide for equitable stabilization mechanisms of the temporary workforce that will be selected, reform the professional system to favor a correct placement and adequate remuneration for the highest technical professionalism of which the administrations are dramatically lacking ".professional organization to favor a correct placement and adequate remuneration for the highest technical professionals of which the administrations are dramatically lacking ".professional organization to favor a correct placement and adequate remuneration for the highest technical professionals of which the administrations are dramatically lacking ".

"The PNRR has finally drawn the guidelines of the country's industrial policies, with a clear long-term vision in which two priority areas emerge, digital transformation and sustainable development, closely connected because digitalization today represents the most powerful engine of growth. sustainable and inclusive - says Andrea Rangone, President of Digital360 -. A crucial part of the program for the restart passes from the Public Administration and its people: from today it is necessary to work together, public and private, to transform objectives into concrete projects and multiply the resources in the field by involving all the players in the most important challenge for the future of the country, that of innovation ".

Before the pandemic, the use of agile forms of work was essentially irrelevant, around 1% in 2019 according to Istat. The government measures brought one in three PA employees (33%) into smart working in the second quarter of 2020. This is what emerges from the report which explains that this is "a good result, even if it could have been beyond double, considering that 64.9% of the PA professions could also be carried out at a distance ". Smart working, in addition to allowing public organizations to experiment with an unprecedented way of organizing work, was decisive for preserving jobs: in the first three quarters of 2020,among the various economic sectors, only the public administration has not suffered the employment repercussions of the crisis (with almost unchanged job positions and hours worked).